DECATUR, Alabama - One man was arrested and another was taken to the hospital with a razor wound to the chest after three people got into a fight this morning at Cedar Key Apartments, police said.

John Jacob Holland, 26, was charged with second-degree assault and taken to Decatur City Jail on $2,500 bond. Police recovered a blue folding utility knife with a razor blade they believe was used in the assault.

The victim, John Knox, was treated at Parkway Medical Center, where he received 15 staples to close his chest wound, the report stated.

According to a Decatur Police report, a female resident of the apartments on Cedar Lake Road in southwest Decatur was involved in an argument with Knox, her downstairs neighbor, and later went down to confront him outside his apartment before 6 a.m.

When the argument became "heated," Holland, a friend of the woman, came downstairs to assist her, the report stated.

A physical altercation ensued, ending with Knox being cut.

Police said Holland and the woman, who was not named, returned to her apartment, where Holland hid the knife under her bed.